Check a Box. Save a Life. The 1 st Global Student Sprint to Improve Healthcare October 22, 2009

Core Aims of Healthcare Improvement Safe Safe Effective Effective Patient Centered Patient Centered Timely Timely Efficient Efficient Equitable Equitable

Safe Surgery Saves Lives

Surgery as Public Health Issue 234 million operations are done globally each year Source: Weiser, Lancet million operations are done globally each year Source: Weiser, Lancet 2008.

Adverse Outcomes Known surgical complications of 3-16% Known death rates of % At least 7 million disabling complications 1 million deaths worldwide each year =

WHO Surgical Safety Checklist

WHO Surgical Safety

Results – All Sites Haynes et al. A Surgical Safety Checklist to Reduce Morbidity and Mortality in a Global Population. New England Journal of Medicine 360: (2009) Death rate Before 1.5% After 0.8 % = 47 % reduction Complication rate Before 11.0% After 7.0% = 36 % reduction

Safe Surgery Student Mentor Project Vision Vision "Students across the world helping to disseminate the WHO Safe Surgery Checklist and partnering to improve healthcare quality"

Safe Surgery Student Mentor Project Mission Recruit Student Mentors: -Awareness messengers -Implementation messengers - Data collectors

Your Checklist:  Visit mentors.html  Have questions?  Download the Toolkit  Raise Awareness  Implement  Collect

Discussion Questions What is Quality Improvement? What is Quality Improvement? Do you think it’s important? Do you think it’s important? Do you want to get involved, in what ways? If not, why not? What challenges do you expect to face? What are deterring factors? Do you want to get involved, in what ways? If not, why not? What challenges do you expect to face? What are deterring factors? How can students from different disciplines work together? How can students from different disciplines work together?

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